[Attempto] or is interpreted as inclusive or , or xor?

Gabriele Kahlout gabriele at mysimpatico.com
Sun Jul 11 16:48:44 CEST 2010


I prefer it only because it's less redundant (the verb is repeated only
once). Otherwise I think they are equivalent.

2010/7/11 Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>

>
> On 11 Jul 2010, at 16:40, Gabriele Kahlout wrote:
>
> > While the 2nd solution is brilliant. The paraphrase of it is:
> > If a thing X1 is inserted and a thing X2 is inserted then the thing X2 is
> the thing X1.
> > This paraphrase is the same for inserted prefixed with a lexicon or not.
> > I take this 2nd solution as to be the way to express exclusiveness of the
> kind in Attempto (until I find other ways, possibly more natural).
>
> Is this more natural?
>
> If something X and something Y are inserted then X is Y.
>
>   --- nef




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